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Racism
Okay, I'm a racist
I must shamefully admit that I don't like Arabs
By dAyi Hamid
Sepetmber 19, 2000
The Iranian
Are we better human beings because we are Iranians? Then why do we treat
foreigners like Swedes treat non-Europeans? If we are superior to other
races, why do we make the same mistakes? Why do we look down at Pakistanis?
Why do we belittle Arabs? Are these the symptoms of having pure Aryan blood?
If our race makes us better human beings, then we have to prove it by treating
foreigners better than other nations do.
Having said all that I must shamefully admit that I don't like Arabs.
yeki biAd bezaneh tu sar-e man >>>
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Los Angeles
Doctor... Doctor...
Dude! Eeverybody is a doctor here
By Siamack Baniameri
September 19, 2000
The Iranian
I was in Los Angles attending a seminar. It was a week-long event which
ended at in the early afternoon on a Friday. Maziyar, my old high school
buddy lives in Los Angles. I always get in touch with him when I'm in the
neighborhood. I called his cellphone from my hotel room. I told him I was
in town and leaving for the airport in couple of hours. I asked him if
he could meet me for a cup of coffee and some gossiping. He tells me that
he is working late but he insists I stay an extra day. He was having a
pool party on Saturday and had invited friends over at his house. I kept
telling him that I was leaving in two hours. But he insisted and insisted
till I gave up. What the hell. I can handle another sunny, beautiful day
in L.A. >>>
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Outlook
Defence lawyers under pressure to admit Jews are spies?
BBC World Service
Days before universities start, several student movements are giving
confusing signals, some inviting them to remain peaceful, and some are
encouraging them to actively protest. Meanwhile, the Chief of Revolutionary
Guards says his forces are prepared to confront any unrest if necessary.
Saeed Yekta talks to Ahmad Salamatian, political analyst in Paris >> >LISTEN HERE
Also: Court
spokesman denies lawyers have been under pressure
Tackling Iran's ethnic divide
By Guy Dinmore in Urumiyeh
The Financial Times
September 18 2000
Leaving a political crisis brewing in Tehran, President Mohammad Khatami
is in the border province of West Azerbaijan this week, where ethnic tensions
and economic deprivation are adding to the strains on Iran's faction-ridden
central government.
Mr Khatami carried the same message of the "Dialogue of Civilisations"
that he took to the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York this month
but this time addressing it to the Turkish-speaking Muslims of northern
Iran >>>
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Afghan refugees leave Iran for home with sadness, resignation
DOGHARUN, Iran, Sept 19 (AFP) - Faces lined with fatigue, hardly a smile
among them, carrying small bundles of clothing, some 2,000 people assembled
at this border crossing into their native Afghanistan, waiting to go home
after years in exile.
They had volunteered to take advantage of a United Nations project aimed
at returning them to their homeland, to an unknown future. There was little
sign of enthusiasm, instead mostly resignation and sadness at leaving behind
the relative tranquility and economic security they had enjoyed in Iran.
>>>
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Tazieh, an Islamic tragedy
PARIS, Sept 19 (AFP) - Tazieh, Iran's distinctive form of religious
drama to be showcased at the Paris Autumn Festival later this week, has
never before been performed outside the Islamic world.
Though its blend of opera, theatre and ritual predates the Islamic era,
Tazieh is now almost entirely concerned with the martyrdom of the imam
Hossein, grandson of the prophet Mohammed, killed in October 680 (common
era) with his family and 72 followers by calif Yazid of Damascus. >>> FULL TEXT
Dear Sir or Madam, I think the flag of Iran should be bellow. Thanks
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* Victims of "artistic expression"
Hagdash writes: I
am not exactly sure what is happening as far as the photos of Googoosh's
concert are concerned ["Googoosh
live!"]; either my computer is having problems displaying anything
useful or we are victims of "artistic expression".
Although I found the idea of the garish photos to be interesting, I
for one would have appreciated at least a couple of viewable photos. Thank
you for the effort.
* Don't leave day job
Mohsen Asadi
writes: These pictures are terrible ["Googoosh
live!"]. They are neither artistic nor real. There are bound to
be better pictures than these somewhere on the Web. Please tell the photographer
not to leave his day job.
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* Innovative
Hamid Nazari writes:
The photos you took of Googoosh and then transformed ["Googoosh
live!"], were very innovative and eye-catching. Impressive.
* Happy memories
Margaret writes: I have found your articles in The Iranian
so very interesting ["Requiem
in Cairo"]. I was married to an Iranian, and have many happy memories
of my life in Iran during the reign of the late Shah. I was particularly
interested in your story of Tea
with with the Former British Ambassador, Sir Denis Wright,whom I had
met during my many years in Iran.
I was deeply moved by your article "By
the Pale Green Stone", and the more recent "Requiem
in Cairo". I, too, was anxious to know what had happened to the
Shah and his family after the Revolution, and found answers in "The
Shah's Last Ride", by William Shawcross >>>
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* Long for home
Mehrdad writes: I have been reading your pieces [Sadaf
Kiani Abbassian's features] and always enjoy them immensely. They always
make me long for the home, the sounds and scents that you so much bring
to life in your writings.
Aid: Drought charity benefit, Phildelphia
In honor of our first anniversary, the Philadelphia Persian Society
cordially invites you to our Masquerade for Charity. Join us for anexciting
evening of music and dancing to benefit a great cause. This event will
be our greatest and most exciting to date, and we expect to have a tremendous
turnout. Please publicize this event to all of your friends and family.
All proceeds of this event will benefit the Iranian Drought Relief Effortvia
the United Nations (Technical Cooperation Department of the Food and Agriculture
Organization). The Masquerade for Charity will be held on Saturday, October
28th from 7-12 p.m., at the Union League of Phi
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
When your friend sits too often with your enemy,
You can't sit too often in his company.
Beware the poison mixed up in the honey.
Run from the harmless fly that sits on a snake.
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Pro-reform journalist, lawyer released
from prison
TEHRAN,
Sept 19 (AFP) - A pro-reform journalist and a lawyer who has defended the
embattled reformist press were both released from prison on Tuesday, a defence
attorney told AFP. Journalist Mohammad Qouchani and lawyer Mohammad-Ali
Jedari-Forouqi, both jailed last month in separate cases, were freed from
Tehran's Evin prison, said Forouqi's lawyer, Nemat Ahmadi >>> FULL
TEXT
Decision on appeal in Iran spy case
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian appeals court will announce a decision
by Thursday on the appeals of 10 Jews convicted and sentenced to jail on
charges of spying for Israel, state-run radio reported Monday night, quoting
a senior judiciary official. Hossein Ali Amiri, the judiciary chief of southern
Fars province where the men were tried, said on Iranian radio that the decision
was to be released by Thursday at the latest >>> FULL TEXT
Conservative to be first woman to run for
presidency
TEHRAN,
Sept 19 (AFP) - Conservative bureaucrat Farah Khosravi announced she will
become the first woman ever to run for the Iranian presidency in next year's
polls, press reports said Tuesday. The unmarried 41-year-old, who has twice
failed to win a seat in parliament, will stand in May's elections as a member
of the Jamiateh Iran Farda (JIF) party, the government-run Iran newspaper
said >>> FULL TEXT
Putin considers Clinton warning on Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton (news - web sites) is urging
RussianPresident Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) to shelve plans to sell
lasertechnology to Iran, telling him it could be adapted to a nuclear weapons
program,an administration official said Tuesday. The Russian leader took
the request seriously, but the follow-up is critical, said the official,
who spoke on conditionof anonymity >>> FULL TEXT
Majlis speaker says US must end hostility
before ties resumed
TEHRAN,
Sept 19 (AFP) - Iran's parliament speaker said Monday he told US lawmakers
last month in New York that it was down to the United States to mend fences
between the two nations, state radio reported. It quoted Mehdi Karubi telling
the lawmakers there would be no response to requests to improve relations
between the two countries "while your government has hostile feelings
towards us, and the wall of mistrust between the two nations still stands."
>>> FULL TEXT
UN refugee head visits Afghan refugee camp
in Iran
TORBAT-E-JAM,
Iran, sept 18 (AFP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata,
on Monday visited a camp of Afghan refugees in Iran and said the question
of education was a "very important" issue for refugees wanting
to return home. "Many refugees want to go back but they have certain
concerns," the UNHCR head told journalists after a visit to the Torbat-e-Jam
camp near the Afghan border, where 7,200 Afghan refugees live >>>
FULL TEXT
Iran denies involvement in Baghdad rocket
attack
TEHRAN,
Sept 19 (AFP) - Iran on Monday denied it was behind a rocket attack in Baghdad
that the Iraqis blamed on Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Iraq's domestic issues and problems have nothing to do with Iran,"
IRNA quoted an informed source at the foreign ministry as saying >>>
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U.S. companies to attend Teheran trade
fair
Sept 18, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - Five companies from the United States
will attend Teheran's international trade fair scheduled early next month,
the official news agency IRNA reported Monday. IRNA quoted a commerce ministry
official as saying that the five U.S. companies are engaged in production
of air conditioning units, audio equipment and cosmetics. The companies
were not mentioned by name >>> FULL TEXT
U.S. businesses demand end of sanctions
against Iran
WASHINGTON,
Sept 19 (AFP) - A coalition of US businesses, agriculture groups and trade
associations on Monday asked the administration of US President Bill Clinton
to lift sanctions against Iran to allow US businesses access to Iran's markets.
"American companies are prevented by executive order from participating
in Iran's oil program," Frank Kittredge, vice chairman of the USA-ENGAGE
coalition and president of the National Foreign Trade Council, said in a
statement >>> FULL TEXT
Success in Toronto
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Marziyeh Meshkini won joint second prize
at the Toronto film festival for her "Ruzi keh zan shodam" (The
day I became a woman). Also... >>> FULL TEXT
Film: Earliest documents
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- The earliest Iranian film industry documents
have been put on display at the Golestan Museum in Tehran >>> FULL
TEXT
Documentaries: A look back
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Documentary film making in Iran took off
in the 1950's with Ebrahim Goleslan's "Golestan Film" company.
Ebrahim Mokhtarzadeh explains >>> FULL TEXT
Sarekhani takes 7th in Olympic judo
SYDNEY (Iran Sports Press) -- With video: Iran's Kazem Sarekhani
took seventh place in the Men's 81 kg Judocompetitions. Kazemi lost to Estonia
Aleksei Budolin in the bronze medal match.Makoto Takimoto of Japan got goldIn-Chul
Cho of Korea got silver, while Aleksei Budolin of Estonia and Nuno Delgadoboth
got bronze >>> FULL TEXT
Mobarrez falls short in swimming
SYDNEY (Iran Sports Press) -- With video: Iran's only swimmer in
Sydney Olympics, Hamid RezaMobarrez, did not qualify to the semi finals
of the Men's100m Freestyle. Despite coming in second place inHeat 2 (group)
with a time of 54.12 seconds, he did notmeet the minimum 50 seconds requirement
to swim inthe semi finals >>> FULL TEXT
Jalal Talebi interview
TEHRAN (Iran Sports Press) -- With audio: In an exclusive interview
with Iran Sports Press onSeptember 17, Jalal Talebi, the head coach of the
IranianNational football Team, discussed the Iranian team'spreparations
for the upcoming Asian Cup finals in Lebanon >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Court spokesman denies lawyers have been
under pressure
Hossein Ali Amiri, head of Shiraz judiciary
denies accusation by the defence lawyers of 10 Iranian Jews that they have
been put under pressure to admit that their clients were spies. Daryoush
Homai talks to Mr Amiri >>>
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